In his Good Books: A Book Lover's Companion (1982) Steven Gilbar
asks "What do I mean by good? Not morally good, and not academically good,
and not simply popular, although the book I recommend may have one or all
of those qualities. 'Rewarding and pleasurable' - those terms I think characterize
the books I am recommending." The titles he lists under Health and Medicine
are grouped in the following sub-categories: Health and Medicine (In General),
Infectious Diseases and Epidemics, Encounters with Illness, Cancer, Cardiovascular
Problems, Exceptional Children, Blindness, Alcoholism, Drug Use, Mental
Disintegration, Psychoanalysis, Death, and Suicide.

Abel, Ernest L.
Marihuana: The First Twelve Thousand Years. 1981
Burroughs, William
Junkie. 1953
De Quincey, Thomas
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. 1822
Harris, David
The Last Scam. 1981
Huxley, Aldous
The Doors of Perception. 1954
Lamb, F. Bruce
Wizard of the Amazon: The Story of Manuel
Cordova-Rios. 1974

Agee, James
A Death in the Family. 1957
Becker, Ernest
The Denial of Death. 1973
Buck, Pearl
A Bridge for Passing. 1962
Caine, Lynn
Widow. 1974
Cook, Bruce, Diane
Death Row. 1980
Christian
Craven, Margaret
I Heard the Owl Call My Name. 1973
Cristofer, Michael
The Shadow Box. 1978
Gunther, John
Death Be Not Proud. 1949
Kapleau, Philip, ed.
The Wheel of Death: A Collection of Writing from
Zen Buddhism and Other Sources on Death,
Rebirth, Dying. 1971
Kluge, Eike-Henner W.
The Ethics of Death. 1975
Krementz, Jill
How it Feels When a Parent Dies. 1981
Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth
On Death and Dying. 1969
Leca, Ange-Pierre
The Egyptian Way of Death: Mummies and the Cult
of the Immortal. 1981
Lerner, Gerda
A Death of One's Own: Fragments from My Life.
1978
Moody, Raymond A., Jr. Life After
Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon -
Survival of Bodily Death. 1976
Panger, Danier
The dance of the Wild Mouse. 1979
Smith, Alexander
Dreamthorp. 1863
Tolstoy, Leo
The Death of Ivan Ilyich. 1886
White, Helen Dean
With Wings as Eagles. 1953
Zorza, Victor, Rosemary
A Way to Die. 1981
Zorza